Overview

This is the OAI-PMH Data Provider (OAIP) application for the DataCite central infrastructure. This app is a servlet with the main functionality of disseminating the contents of the DataCite Metadata Store using OAI-PMH.

To learn more about DataCite please visit our website

To use this service please go to http://oai.datacite.org

Installation (for development only)

Tools

You will need Maven 2.2.1 and JDK 6 in your system (OpenJDK from Ubuntu works fine).

Solr setup

This application is configured to connect to a Solr instance for all searching and record retrieval.

Java dependencies

All dependencies are managed by Maven public repositories.

Configure the source code

I assume you had created a fork from the master DataCite OAIP project. Now you need to configure the code before compiling.

The git repository has a bunch of *.template files. You can find them with:

find . -name *.template

Those files are templates for the various configuration files which are machine specific i.e. logging, database credentials etc.

To customise them you need to make a copy omitting (.template from file name) e.g.:

cp src/main/resources/log4j.xml.template \
 src/main/resources/log4j.xml

Now in the created file you need to adjust values according to your local environment.

src/main/resources/database.properties

your database(Solr) configuration.

src/main/resources/log4j.properties

your usual log4j stuff.

Running locally

First run

At this stage you should be able to run the application.

mvn compile tomcat:run

Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/oaip/

You should see the welcome page of the DataCite OAI-PMH Data Provider.

That's all!

Now you can run test OAI-PMH requests against the application.